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Building the machine that builds the machine (Changelog Interviews #676)


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Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what’s going to prod, what’s not, and why he’s (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand.

Update: He’s back to letting the AIs write code, but with a lot more oversight. For now…

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  • Featuring:

    • Paul Dix – GitHub, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
    • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • Build the machine that builds the machine
    • Paul dix on X: “2026: the great engineering divergence”
    • InfluxData
    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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